This is the Hugo winner from 2008. My trail of the Hugos has now led me to this century and the more up to date winners. However I cannot see how this book can qualify as SCIFI or fantasy. I never liked it when they changed the entry standards to include Fantasy in the Hugos but this one doesn't seem to be either. It is made up, it is make believe, but it's more your classic whodunit. It is a good read and solving murders surely goes into the crime thriller class. Yiddish is a dying language and the author was told off for making fun of it so he writes a whole novel bound up in the stuff. It helps to have a Yiddish dictionary.
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| They say politicians are speaking two indistinguishable languages these days - Yiddish and Rubbish |
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